Purpose

However, current regulations do not adequately support automated road vehicles. In November 2016, Australian transports ministers agreed to a phased reform program so that conditionally automated vehicles can operate safely and legally on our roads before 2020, and highly and fully automated vehicles from 2020.

We are implementing a roadmap of reform to prepare Australia for automated road vehicles. Phase one of this reform agenda was developing national guidelines for on-road trials of automated vehicles in Australia.

remove regulatory barriers in Australian Road Rules and other transport laws that assume a human driver.

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Background

Our work in this area began in November 2015 after the Transport and Infrastructure Council asked us to identify regulatory barriers to safely introducing more automated road and rail vehicles in Australia.